Beautiful Color Palette with a Story: Mola

Today’s color palette has a cool story behind it. The color palette is Mola by tvr.

Mola by tvr

Tvr said this about her inspiration, “In Dulegaya, the Kuna’s native language, “mola” means “shirt” or “clothing”. The mola originated with the tradition of Kuna women painting their bodies with geometrical designs, using available natural colours; in later years these same designs were woven in cotton, and later still, sewn using cloth bought from the European settlers of Panama.

The mola forms part of the traditional costume of a Kuna woman, two mola panels being incorporated as front and back panels in a blouse. The full costume traditionally includes a patterned wrapped skirt (saburet), a red and yellow headscarf (musue), arm and leg beads (wini), a gold nose ring (olasu) and earrings in addition to the mola blouse (dulemor)”

You can view the picture of inspiration for Mola on the Mola homepage.

I love the heat and the coolness all rolled into one palette. The colors are so fab. So vibrant.

So today we learned a little something, didn’t we? Have a great Thursday, lemonheads!